GRANDMOTHER MARRIES GAMBIAN WAITER AND THEN “SHOCK HORROR” FINDS OUT HE ONLY WANTED HER MONEY AND A BRITISH VISA
Grandmother Mary Cotnoir fell in love with Gambian waiter Demba Sanneh nearly 35 years her junior, married him and then later found out he was only interested in her money and gaining a British visa. Hmmmm… a familiar story. Seriously what are these women thinking? When will they learn? Anyway now in an act of revenge Mary has announced that she is refusing to divorce Demba, ‘so he cannot dupe another unsuspecting tourist into marriage — and bringing his dream of starting a new life […]
UK NEWS: GALLERY LAUNCHES SLAVE PORTRAIT APPEAL
BBC News reports that The National Portrait Gallery has launched a campaign to stop the export of the earliest known British oil painting of a freed slave. A spokesperson from the gallery says they need to raise £100,000 to save the 1733 portrait of Gambian Ayuba Suleiman Diallo, by artist William Hoare. Ayuba Suleiman Diallo Diallo came from a prosperous family of religious clerics, was captured as a slave in Africa at the age of 29 and was transported to work on a plantation in America. […]